We propose an axiomatization of the Choquet integral model for the general case of a heterogeneous product set X = X1 Xn. Previous characterizations of the Choquet integral have been given for the particular cases X = Y n and X = Rn. However, this makes the results inapplicable to problems in many fields of decision theory, such as multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA), state-dependent utility (SD-DUU), and social choice. For example, in multicriteria decision analysis the elements of X are interpreted as alternatives, characterized by criteria taking values from the sets Xi. Obviously, the identicalness or even commensurateness of criteria cannot be assumed a priori. Despite this theoretical gap, the Choquet integral model is quite popular in the MCDA community and is widely used in applied and theoretical works. In fact, the absence of a sufficiently general axiomatic treatment of the Choquet integral has been recognized several times in the decision-theoretic literature. In our work we aim to provide missing results { we construct the axiomatization based on a novel axiomatic system and study its uniqueness properties. Also, we extend our construction to various particular cases of the Choquet integral and analyse the constraints of the earlier characterizations. Finally, we discuss in detail the implications of our results for the applications of the Choquet integral as a model of decision making.

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2018-02-08T11:01:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Andrea V. Araujo.pdf: 1711752 bytes, checksum: 01519398947b357aff3fc47a51ecb570 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-02-08T11:01:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Andrea V. Araujo.pdf: 1711752 bytes, checksum: 01519398947b357aff3fc47a51ecb570 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-06-28 / This thesis analyzes the relationship between satisfaction with life and acculturation, and the factors that influence the process of acculturation in immigrants. The proposed hypothesis is that immigration status moderates the relationship between life satisfaction and acculturation, so that the closer the immigrant´s status is to citizenship in the new country, the greater the positive correlation between life satisfaction and acculturation. In the three studies that compose this research, the dominant characteristics of acculturation were identified at the personal, biological, systemic, and sociocultural levels, with the objective of creating the Integral Acculturation Scale (EAI), the first acculturation assessment based on the AQAL (All Quadrants, All Lines) model, from the American philosopher Ken Wilber´s Integral Theory. To achieve the proposed objectives and to test the hypothesis, it was necessary to develop an integral measure of acculturation, and demonstrate its predictive power. The research was carried out using qualitative-quantitative methodology, and consisted of three studies: Study 1, the formulation and fulfillment of the quali-quantitative questionnaire, the “Integral Acculturation Intake”; Study 2, the elaboration of the Integral Acculturation Scale in the pilot test, and then the application and validation of the proposed scale with an international sample of 282 participants; and Study 3, the statistical analysis using structural equation modeling that confirms the hypothesis that the demographic variable “type of immigration” is a moderator of the relationship between satisfaction with life and level of acculturation. The intention is for this measure to be a reference to be used internationally as it continues to be validated with immigrants from cultures not yet explored. / Esta tese analisa a relação entre satisfação com a vida e aculturação, e os fatores que influenciam o processo de aculturação em imigrantes. Exploramos a hipótese de que o status da imigração modera a relação entre satisfação com a vida e aculturação, de modo que quanto mais elevado o status de imigração (mais próximo a cidadania), maior é a correlação positiva entre satisfação com a vida e aculturação. Nos três estudos que compõem esta pesquisa, as características dominantes de aculturação foram identificadas, nos níveis pessoal, biológico, sistêmico, e sociocultural, com o objetivo de criar a Escala de Aculturação Integral, uma avaliação de aculturação baseada no modelo AQAL da teoria Integral do filosofo americano Ken Wilber. Para atingir os objetivos propostos e testar a hipótese, foi necessário desenvolver uma medida nova de aculturação, e demonstrar seu poder preditivo. A pesquisa foi realizada seguindo a orientação quali-quantitativo, composta pelos três estudos desta tese: Estudo 1, a formulação e realização do questionário quali-quantitativo, o “Integral Acculturation Intake”; Estudo 2, a elaboração da Escala de Aculturação Integral no teste-piloto, e depois a aplicação e validação da escala proposta com uma amostra internacional de 282 participantes; e Estudo 3, a análise estatística de modelagem de equações estruturais que confirmou a hipótese que a variável demográfica “status de imigração” é um moderador da relação entre o nível de satisfação com a vida e aculturação. Em futuros estudos, a ampliação dos estudos de validação em culturas diferentes pode permitir utilização internacional da escala.

Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die Berechnung der arithmetischen Volumina der Shimuravarietäten vom orthogonalen Typ und der natürlichen Höhen der speziellen Zykel auf diesen. Wir entwickeln, für den Fall guter Reduktion, eine allgemeine Theorie ganzzahliger Modelle von toroidalen Kompaktifizierungen der Shimuravarietäten vom Hodge Typ (sowie des Standardhauptfaserbündels darüber). Dies ermöglicht, unter Verwendung der Theorie der Borcherdsprodukte, das arithmetische Voluminen einer zu einem Gitter L der Diskriminante D assoziierten Shimuravarietät, bis auf log(p) Beiträge zu Primzahlen p mit p^2|4D, zu berechnen. Dies ist eine Verallgemeinerung einer Arbeit von Burgos, Bruinier und Kühn. Die Höhen der speziellen Zykel werden im Falle von Kodimension 1 bis auf log(p)-Beiträge mit p|2D berechnet, sowie unter leichten zusätzlichen Einschränkungen im Falle von Kodimension > 1. The resultierenden Grössen sind spezielle Ableitungswerte gewisser L-Reihen. Im Falle der speziellen Zykel stimmen diese mit speziellen Ableitungswerten gewisser normalisierter Eisensteinreihen überein (zusätzlich, bis auf Beiträge bei unendlich). Dies bestätigt Vermutungen von Bruinier-Kühn, Kudla und anderen. / The overall aim of this thesis is to compute arithmetic volumes of Shimura varieties of orthogonal type and natural heights of the special cycles on them. We develop a general theory of integral models of toroidal compactifications of Shimura varieties of Hodge type (and of its standard principal bundle) for the case of good reduction. This enables us, using the theory of Borcherds products, and generalizing work of Burgos, Bruinier and Kühn, to calculate the arithmetic volume of a Shimura variety associated with a lattice L of discriminant D, up to log(p)-contributions from primes p such that p^2|4D. The heights of the special cycles are calculated in the codimension 1 case up to log(p), p|2D, and with some additional restrictions in the codimension > 1 case. The values obtained are special derivatives of certain L-series. In the case of the special cycles they are equal to special derivatives of Fourier coefficients of certain normalized Eisenstein series (in addition, up to contributions from infinity) in accordance with conjectures of Bruinier-Kühn, Kudla, and others.

Οι ροές φλεβών άνωσης έχουν πολύ μεγάλο ενδιαφέρον στην περιβαλλοντική υδραυλική και στη μηχανική των ρευστών, επειδή παρουσιάζονται σε αρκετά φαινόμενα που σχετίζονται με τη διάθεση υγρών αποβλήτων ή θερμών νερών σε υδάτινους αποδέκτες καθώς επίσης και την εκπομπή αερίων ενώσεων από καμινάδες στην ατμόσφαιρα. Στην παρούσα διατριβή διπλώματος ειδίκευσης μελετήθηκε η ανάπτυξη ενός μοντέλου που περιγράφει το φαινόμενο της αλληλεπίδρασης φλεβών από διαχύτη τύπου ροζέτας. Η ροζέτα προσομοιώνεται με ένα κύκλο στον οποίο είναι εγγεγραμμένο κανονικό πολύγωνο Ν πλευρών, στις κορυφές του οποίου εδράζονται τα Ν κατακόρυφα ακροφύσια. Λόγω γεωμετρικής και υδραυλικής συμμετρίας του φαινομένου, μελετάται η μία φλέβα από την ομάδα των Ν φλεβών που συμμετέχουν. Η μέση ροή και η μεταφορά μάζας σε μία τέτοια φλέβα περιγράφονται από την ολοκλήρωση των εξισώσεων συνέχειας, ορμής και διάχυσης. Επίσης, έγινε η σύγκριση μεταξύ του συγκεκριμένου μοντέλου και δεδομένων από τη σχετική βιβλιογραφία. Σκοπός της εργασίας, είναι η ανάπτυξη ενός μοντέλου που να περιγράφει το πεδίο ταχυτήτων και διάχυσης που δημιουργείται από την αλληλεπίδραση φλεβών, όταν αυτές εκρέουν από μια ροζέτα. Η αναγκαιότητα και χρησιμότητα της προσέγγισης του φαινομένου, είναι η εξαγωγή συμπερασμάτων για την εφαρμογή τους στην ολοένα αυξανόμενη χρήση διαχυτών τέτοιου τύπου. Στο πρώτο κεφάλαιο της εργασίας παρουσιάζεται η περιγραφή του φαινομένου της εκροής μιας φλέβας. Δίνονται κάποια εισαγωγικά στοιχεία που προσδιορίζουν τις ανωστικές φλέβες και τα γενικά χαρακτηριστικά τους και γίνεται αναφορά στο φαινόμενο της τύρβης που αποτελεί βασικό κομμάτι της ροής σε μία φλέβα. Στο δεύτερο μέρος του κεφαλαίου, παρουσιάζονται οι βασικές εξισώσεις, της συνέχειας, της ορμής και της διάχυσης, που περιγράφουν τη ροή μίας φλέβας με άνωση και εξάγονται οι ίδιες εξισώσεις για την τυρβώδη ροή φλέβας, χρησιμοποιώντας τους κανόνες μεσοποίησης του Reynolds, ολοκληρωμένες σε μία εγκάρσια διατομή της φλέβας. Στο δεύτερο κεφάλαιο περιγράφεται το φαινόμενο της αλληλεπίδρασης των φλεβών. Δίνεται σχηματικά το πεδίο που προκύπτει από την αλληλεπίδραση και γίνεται αναφορά σε μεθόδους που έχουν χρησιμοποιηθεί για την αντιμετώπισή του. Στο τρίτο κεφάλαιο, αναπτύσσεται το μοντέλο για την αλληλεπίδραση φλεβών από διαχύτη τύπου ροζέτας. Αρχικά, παρουσιάζεται συνοπτικά το μοντέλο των Yannopoulos & Noutsopoulos (2005) για την αλληλεπίδραση φλεβών σε σειρά, στη λογική του οποίου αντιμετωπίζεται το πρόβλημα της αλληλεπίδρασης φλεβών από ροζέτα. Στη συνέχεια παρουσιάζεται η εξέλιξη του φαινομένου. Χρησιμοποιώντας την ολοκληρωματική μεθόδο και τη Μέθοδο Περιορισμού της Συμπαράσυρσης, επιλύεται το σύστημα των εξισώσεων ορμής στη διεύθυνση z και της εξίσωσης διατήρησης της μάζας του χημικού δείκτη. Από την επίλυση του συστήματος εξάγονται οι εξισώσεις που περιγράφουν την κατανομή των μέσων αξονικών ταχυτήτων και των συγκεντρώσεων των Ν φλεβών. Για την καλύτερη απεικόνιση των αποτελεσμάτων, δίνονται οι λόγοι της κατανομής της ταχύτητας και της συγκέντρωσης των Ν φλεβών ως προς την κατανομή της ταχύτητα και της συγκέντρωσης, αντίστοιχα, της μιας κυκλικής κατακόρυφης ανωστικής φλέβας. Στο τέταρτο κεφάλαιο παρουσιάζονται τα αποτελέσματα της εφαρμογής του μοντέλου που έχει αναπτυχθεί, για τις περιπτώσεις ροζετών με Ν=3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 24 και με άπειρο αριθμό ακροφυσίων. Στο δεύτερο μέρος του κεφαλαίου, γίνονται οι συγκρίσεις με τα δεδομένα από τη βιβλιογραφία. Τα αποτελέσματα της εφαρμογής του μοντέλου για άπειρο πλήθος ακροφυσίων, συγκρίνονται με τα αποτελέσματα του μοντέλου για αλληλεπίδραση απείρων φλεβών των Yannopoulos & Noutsopoulos (2005). Σε αυτή τη σύγκριση δεν παρατηρήθηκαν αποκλίσεις μεταξύ τους. Ακόμη, συγκρίνονται τα αποτελέσματα της εφαρμογής του μοντέλου της παρούσας εργασίας για ροζέτα με 8 και 12 ακροφύσια με τα αντίστοιχα πειραματικά αποτελέσματα των Roberts & Snyder (1993). Οι αποκλίσεις είναι μικρότερες του πειραματικού σφάλματος το οποίο υπεισέρχεται στα πειράματα. / Buoyant flows are of great interest in environmental fluid mechanics and hydraulics, because they occur in many phenomena related to wastewater or heat disposal into water bodies. Similar flows take place when chimney or cooling tower emissions of smoke and other air pollutants or heat are released into the atmosphere. In this project a model was developed which describes the phenomenon of interaction of jets discharging from a rosette riser. A circle in which a horizontal equilateral polygon of N sides is inscribed, has modeled the rosette riser. The N vertical nozzles are laying on the apexes of the polygon. Due to geometric and hydraulic symmetry of the phenomenon, one buoyant jet of the group of N jets was studied. The mean flow and mass transfer in a jet of this kind are governed by the integral forms of the equations of continuity, momentum at the vertical direction and mass conservation of tracer. Furthermore, the specific model was compared to experimental data. The aim of the project is the development of a model describing the mean axial velocity distribution and mean concentration distribution, which are produced of the interaction of jets when they discharge vertically from a rosette riser. The necessity of this approach is the extraction of useful results in order to design such kind of diffuser systems. In the first chapter, there is a description of the discharged effluent. Some preliminary elements that determine buoyant jets and their general characteristics are given. Also, there are some preliminary elements about turbulence that constitutes great part of jet flow. In the second part of this chapter, there are the equations of continuity, momentum and mass conservation of tracer, which describe the turbulent flow, utilizing the Reynolds’ rules. These equations are integrated across the flow. In the second chapter the phenomenon of jet interaction is described. Also, it is given, schematically, the merged flow field and the methods and techniques that have been used to face up the problem in the past. In the third chapter, it is shown the development of the model for jet merging from a rosette riser and the process of the phenomenon. Using the Integral Method and adopting the Entrainment Restriction Approach, the system of the equations of momentum and mass conservation of tracer was solved, extracting the axial velocity and concentration distributions. To better quantify the buoyant jet interaction and illustrate it in simple diagrams, these expressions were divided on both sides by the corresponding analytical expressions of the round vertical turbulent buoyant jet, determining the axial velocities and concentrations ratios. In the last chapter, we demonstrate the results from applying the model for N=3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 24 ports per riser. There is also an application of the model for infinite number of nozzles. In the second part of this chapter, it is shown the comparisons of the results with other data. The results of the application of the model of infinite number of nozzles were compared with the model for an infinite row of interacting buoyant jets (Yannopoulos & Noutsopoulos, 2005). There are no deviations between the models. Also, there is a comparison between the application of the model for 8 and 12 nozzles with the experimental data of Roberts and Snyder (1993). The deviations in this case were less than the experimental error, which took place in the experiments.

Oil well blow outs are investigated to determine methods to quickly and accurately respond to an emergency situation. Flow rate is needed to guide containment and dispersal operations. The Stratified Integral Multiphase Plume, SIMP, model was used to investigate the range of initial conditions available to integral modeling. Sensitivity to initial conditions is modest, but without experimental data at the appropriate scale the most accurate condition is unable to be determined. Flow rates are difficult to directly measure in blow out situations, so another method must be determined; therefore, sensitivity of several parameters to flow rate was also evaluated. Methane concentration in the first intrusion can be used in conjunction with velocity and trap height measurements to determine flow rate using an integral model. Plume width and temperature were determined to have little sensitivity. Separately, a containment dome was tested in the laboratory to determine if a full scale dome can be used to contain an oil leak in the field. The dome was found to have satisfactory entrapment in the designed position.